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Jackie Speier

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Jackie Speier is a former U.S. Representative from California, serving in the House of Representatives from January 3, 2008, until January 15, 2022. A member of the Democratic Party, she represented California's 14th congressional district. Speier is known for her advocacy on issues such as women's rights, healthcare, and gun control. She gained national attention for her work on the Sexual Assault Survivors' Bill of Rights and her efforts to address military sexual assault. Speier's political career began in the California State Assembly, where she served from 2002 to 2006 before moving to the U.S. Congress.

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Nov 17, 2020

the DOD did not mitigate any risks within the work and living areas of K2, closed quote.

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Nov 17, 2020

remediation measures such as, and I quote, covering contaminated areas with clean soil and declaring them, quote, off limits were taken to reduce the risk of these hazards.

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Sep 30, 2020

In the last two years of exclusivity you raised the price almost 20 percent.

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Sep 30, 2020

Medicare paid $5.6 billion to your company between 2011 and 2018.

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Sep 30, 2020

How much money do you spend on marketing?

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Sep 30, 2020

In fact, between 2013 and 2015, Novartis' price increase accelerated. It raised the price of Gleevec five times in two years. It turned out to be a 20 percent increase in that drug.

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Sep 30, 2020

Gleevec is a miracle drug. My former chief of staff's wife died of CML. Had she lived another couple of years Gleevec would have been discovered as this miracle drug and her condition would have been chronic and she would be alive today.

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Sep 29, 2020

If we look at that and then we look at Celgene, which in 2017--in just that one year raised the cost Revlimid 15 percent.

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Sep 29, 2020

The United States is the biggest spender, the Government of the United States is the biggest spender of drugs.

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Sep 29, 2020

At some point, the Federal Government cannot be the ultimate sucker here.

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Sep 9, 2020

I think that old adage about not changing the spots on a leopard really applies here.

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